“Anatomy of a Fall” wins Best Picture

The 49th César Awards, France’s most prestigious film awards, were handed out in Paris, with actress Justine Treat competing for an Oscar. Anatomy of a fall Emerging as the big winner.

The French courtroom drama — which is competing for Oscars in five categories — won Best Picture, Best Actress for Sandra Holler, Best Director for Triet, Best Original Screenplay shared between Triet and co-writer Arthur Harary, and Swann Arlaud took Best Picture. Best Supporting Actor Award.

Holler won in the Best Actress category over Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, for whom she was nominated Little blue girl; Leah Drucker, even last summer; Hafsa Harzi was nominated for an award Kidnapping; Belgian actress Virginie Efira, nominated for her work in… Just the two of us.

It was another big winner of the night Animal kingdomFrench director Thomas Kaili’s 2014 follow-up Love at first battle. Kylie took home the award for Best Cinematography and a slew of wins in literal categories like Best Sound, Original Score, Costumes and Special Effects.

Coming to the awards ceremony on Friday night is Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a fall And Animal kingdom He led the field for the 2024 César Awards. anatomy From falling I picked up 11 Cesar’s names animal kingdom – – which leaned in Cannes and depicted people literally turning into animals due to mutations – received 12 nods.

Both were nominated in the Best Picture and Best Director categories. In other acting categories, Aryeh Worthalter won Best Actor for the title role in Cedric Kahn’s courtroom drama. Goldman caseAdele Exarchopoulos won Best Supporting Actress for her star turn All your faces.

Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan received an honorary César Award for lifetime achievement at this year’s ceremony in Paris after being presented during the ceremony by Cotillard.

“It’s always exciting to open a film here. “I’ve always really loved French audiences, and that love of cinema has always had an impact on me,” Nolan said at the Cesar ceremony when accepting the honor on stage. The other honorary Cesar of the night went to the actress, screenwriter and director Frenchman Agnès Jaoui.

Oppenheimer — which dominated the BAFTA awards with seven awards, including best film — lost out in the best foreign film category to the Canadian-French co-production. The nature of love Directed by Mounia Shukri.

Shukri was surprised that the drama set in Quebec won OppenheimerIn typical Canadian fashion, he apologized to Nolan while accepting the trophy.

The emotional high point at this year’s César festival was when Judith Godrich, the actress who accused two French directors of assaulting her when she was a teenager, bravely addressed the French film industry and urged her peers to address the issue of sexual violence.

“Let us have the courage to say out loud what we know deep down. Let us not embody heroines on screen, only to find ourselves hiding in the woods in real life; And we don’t say anything,” Goodrich told a respectfully silent Cesar audience during a six-minute speech that was preceded by a standing ovation as she came on stage.

Below is the complete list of winners:

the best movie

Anatomy of a fall

Best director

justin Treat, Anatomy of a fall

Best Actress

Sandra Holler Anatomy of a fall

best actor

Aryeh Worthalter Goldman case

Best Supporting Actress

Adele Exarchopoulos All your faces

Best Supporting Actor

swan arloud l Anatomy of a fall

Best New Actress

Ella Rumpf L Margaret’s theory

Best New Actor

Rafael Coignard Junk dog

Best Original Screenplay

Justin Treat, Arthur Harary Anatomy of a fall

Best Adapted Screenplay

Valerie Donzelli, Audrey Dewan Love and forests

Best original score

Andrea Laszlo De Simone Animal kingdom

Best sound

Fabrice Osinski, Raphael Soher, Mathieu Fichette, Niels Barletta Animal kingdom

Best cinematography

Davio Kylie L Animal kingdom

Best editing

Laurent Senechal Anatomy of a fall

Best fashion design

Ariane courses for Animal kingdom

Best production design

Stefan Tillason The Three Musketeers (Part One: D’Artagnan / Part Two: Birthy)

Best visual effects

Cyril Bonjean, Bruno Sommer, Jean-Louis Otret Animal kingdom

Best short film

To pay attention Directed by Alice Douar and produced by Marie Boitard and Alice Douar

Best animation feature

Linda’s chicken! Directed by Chiara Malta and Sebastian Laudenbach and produced by Marc Ermer, Emmanuel Alain Raynal and Pierre Bussaron

Best animated short film: summer 96, Directed by Mathilde Bidoit

Best Documentary Film

Four girls Directed by Kawthar Ben Hania and produced by Nadim Sheikhrouha

Best short documentary

fluid mechanics, Directed by Gala Hernandez Lopez

Best first feature

Junk dog The film is directed by Jean-Baptiste Aurand and produced by Anaïs Bertrand

Best foreign film

The nature of love Directed by Monia Shukri